As Gannett marshals a top-brass dinner delegation easily exceeding 50 people, I wonder if Corporate is including major advertisers on its guest ticket list for the star-studded White House Correspondents' Association annual fundraiser. Citing a Marketplace radio report yesterday, The Christian Science Monitor says Newsweek invited CEO David Brennan (left) of drug maker AstraZeneca, which spent $7 million on ads in the magazine last year.Please post your list replies in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green rail, upper right.
Who says there is a firewall separating the newsroom from all these cosy relations on the corporate side?
ReplyDeleteIt's just not Gannett, but the entire corporate ownership structure of journalism today.
Daulton Cadrey, P&G
ReplyDeleteAgreed, 8:52 pm: I've added "The Industry" tag to this, and the other White House Correspondence Association dinner posts.
ReplyDeleteSee Tom Curley on the lead table with Obama. Wonder what AP paid for that. No wonder they have to raise fees which leads to more layoffs at the papers.
ReplyDeleteWas Jack Kelly there? At a guest appearance for our Marketing Day meeting in 2003 he told a nice tale. He lowered his voice for a dramatic story about a Palestinian Imam who "confided" in him about rocks telling Arabs who to kill to enter paradise. I lectured him about balanced reporting concerning Arabs losing their land as part of our paper's total news coverage; at the same time someone whispered in his ear, resulting in Kelley never giving any feedback. In our cafeteria days later I ran into him and he "apologized," which was a comment I wasn't expecting. We became friends and e-mailed each other once, but I always wondered if he would have had a different "performance" if the Marketing Day room was full of Arabs, and why apologize? The next year he was caught fabricating stories of suicide bombings in Israel.
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